@ UKMW2006 in Leicester: 1. opening plenary

i am at the annual UK museums and the web conference http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/2-2006.shtml (no affiliation with our MW conferences), where i have just given the keynote presentation, following Simon Waldman of the Guardian Unlimited. Simon -- who has been with the on-line edition of the paper since 1999, wandered through The New Content Landscape, drawing some useful parallels between publishing a newspaper on-line and making cultural content accessible in the networked space. I was intrigued to hear him struggling with the realization that they had accumulated a significant legacy of on-line content, and that a full 1/3 of their traffic was to stories more than 3 months old. A big challenge for an organization attuned to recreating the view of the wold every day.

to check out:

memorandum.com [awareness/current zeitgeist]

liveplasma.com [fun visualization]

"been there" section of the Guardian Unlimited [travel recommender]

To ponder: where are we on the Gartner Hype Cycle with museum web applications?

What did I say? see the presentation [online soon] .. and consider the use of museum content in a teenage girl#039s blog as a measure of success. we want to be where the people live...